My musings on the New Testament, Early Christianity, Religion, Literature, and Other Phenomena and Ephemera.

Thursday, January 8, 2009

"Despair" Has a Blogging "DeMotivator"

So...one of my favorite websites (ever since I was in college) is www.despair.com. It is a site for your inner pessimist. They make "demotivators," which are basically posters (and t-shirts, etc.) that satirize "successories."

One of their latest demotivators...or, at least one I hadn't seen before (I haven't been on the site for a while)...is about blogging, in their typical barbed wit:

About Me

I have a Ph.D. in Religion from Columbia University. I am a visiting assistant professor at Illinois College. I have also taught at the University of Mississippi, Illinois Wesleyan University, and Columbia University. My research focuses on the New Testament and emergent Christian interactions with ancient Judaism in their Greco-Roman and ancient Near Eastern environments.